An Essay on the Organic Diseases and Lesions of the Heart and Great Vessels. Published under his inspection by C.E.Horeau. Translated from the French with Notes by Jacob Gates.

Jean Nicolas Corvisart des Marets, baron.; Jacob Gates

 Boston, Philadelphia : Bradford et Read, Anthony Finley, 1812.

1st American ed.  Bound in contemporary acid calf.  Some wear to cover. Rubbing, primarily to spine. xii, 344 p. Generally clean and unmarked internally, with some toning. Corvisart was a noted French doctor.  He specialized in cardiology and served as the primary physician to Napoleon.

  Signed John B. Beck, 1821.  Presumed to be Dr. John Brodhead Beck (1794-1851), a noted New York physician and authority on miscarriage, abortion, and infanticide.   Beck taught in the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons as Professor of materia medica and botany.   - ANB.  Austin 548.   Shaw et Shoemaker, 25169. Garrison-Morton 2737. - Translation of: Essai sur les maladies et les lesions organiques du coeur et des gros vaisseaux. "In this great classic of cardiac literature, Corvisart for the first time so ordered the symptomatology of heart disease that differentiation between cardiac and pulmonary disease was made possible. He distinguished between cardiac hypertrophy and dilatation, he divided the clinical course of cardiac failure into three phases, and he showed the relationship between cause and effect in valvular disease and cardiac failure." - Heirs of Hippocrates 1126.